Nine Questions

Though he's got a 9-to-5 as a system administrator to pay the bills, local music fans know Don Jennings best as host of the Locals Only radio program on KXCI--which he's hosted for more than six years--and which airs every Monday night from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 91.3 FM. While for the last several years, the program has been divided into two hour-long segments--the first consisting of pre-recorded music by local and regional acts, the second featuring a live, in-studio performance and interview with a single local band or performer--due to the recent FCC crackdown on obscenity and the potential for such infractions to occur in a live broadcast, the show may soon return to an all-pre-recorded format. Damn you, Michael Powell!

What was the first concert you ever saw?

Blue Oyster Cult, in a roller-rink in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1983. I'm sure it was a very Spinal Tap moment for them.

What CDs are in your changer right now?

Local: New albums by The Solace Brothers, Campo Bravo and Calexico. National: Michael Franti and Spearhead, Franz Ferdinand and The Soul of John Black.